August Blog: New New Orleans

Hey everyone, it's me again! Another month down and only one block remaining until winter break. November was a filled month for the pharmacology program. For most of the month we studied the endocrine/reproductive system. I was a neuroscience and psychology double major in college, so this material was mostly new for me. What I found most interesting about this block was all the incredibly complex facets involved with diabetes. It is absolutely amazing how this common disease initiates and progresses throughout a patients life. Learning about everything from the specific biology, all the way to pharmacological intervention, helped me understand how an entire human system responds in many different ways to disruption in the normal metabolic routine. In order to help us gain an understanding of diabetes and its treatments, we all participated in a Team Based Learning exercise. We are split into small groups and work together on answering difficult questions about the disease. I be

Hey everyone! October has been an amazing and busy time. The weather goes back and forth between typical New Orleans heat and atypical New Orleans chills. This month we finished our pulmonary block, learning about antivirals, antifungals, pneumonia, organ transplants, and various molecular imaging techniques. From there, we started our GI/neoplasia block covering drugs ranging from IBS all the way to chemotherapy. It has been a busy time with a lot of information to be learned, but manageable now that everyone is now in the pharmacology rhythm. That being said, I am more than ready for our upcoming thanksgiving break! This month, a few students in the program, and myself, volunteered for a 5k run hosted by the United Negro College Fund. I signed up for this event last minute after hearing about it from a few classmates. I was quickly on board once I heard about the amazing work that this fund does for historically black colleges and universities such as Xavier and Dillard Universit